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Prevention Of Violent Crime: A Review Of The Literature, Portland State University. Criminology And Criminal Justice Senior Capstone

Criminology and Criminal Justice Senior Capstone Project

During the course of the term, our group was tasked with researching the prevention of violent crime. Our research consisted of examining scholarly articles containing original information regarding the definition and prevalence of violent crime, victims, offenders, modus operandi, prevention strategies and implications for policy and training. Our findings are closely linked to data found in the United States. We began our research with original definitions of the prevention of violent crime contained in the articles. The prevalence of violent crime is discussed, including how measurements were determined. The characteristics of, and factors associated with being a victim of …

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Can Art Inspire Me to Think Critically About

"As the Artist in Residence at Portland State University’s Housing and Residence Life department, I worked closely for three years with the administration, faculty, and students who were part of the Living and Learning Communities in the residence halls. Throughout the 2016-2017 academic year, I hosted workshops with first-year students from non-art classes at the Portland Art Museum, and they did assignments designed to get students thinking about the value of art outside of an art context. Those workshops resulted in a series of student projects investigating current events, globalism, immigration, social justice, climate change, intersectional feminism, and police brutality. …

Portland Msa Economic & Population Outlook April 2017, Thomas Potiowsky, Portland State University. Northwest Economic Research Center

Northwest Economic Research Center Publications and Reports

NERC's biannual forecast of employment, income, housing permits, and house prices for the Portland MSA. The April release also includes the annual forecast of population and households.

The Effectiveness Of Sanitary Inspections As A Risk Assessment Tool For Thermotolerant Coliform Bacteria Contamination Of Rural Drinking Water: A Review Of Data From West Bengal, India, Christian Snoad, Corey L. Nagel, Animesh Bhattacharya, Evan A. Thomas

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The use of sanitary inspections combined with periodic water quality testing has been recommended in some cases as screening tools for fecal contamination. We conducted sanitary inspections and tested for thermotolerant coliforms (TTCs), a fecal indicator bacteria, among 7,317 unique water sources in West Bengal, India. Our results indicate that the sanitary inspection score has poor ability to identify TTC-contaminated sources. Among deep and shallow hand pumps, the area under curve (AUC) for prediction of TTC > 0 was 0.58 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.53–0.61) and 0.58 (95% CI = 0.54–0.62), respectively, indicating that the sanitary inspection score was only …

Designing Digital Literacy Programming For Transformative Social Engagement, Tim Miller

Online Northwest

Developing library programming that meets the needs of the organization and community but is also interesting and accessible to your audience often feels impossible. However, engaging with the community is not a sisyphean task. Spending time on social engagement and activism will allow you to understand what the community’s needs and interests are so that you can design digital literacy programming that has an audience. Learn how the Humboldt State Library has used the Salzburg Curriculum (http://salzburg.hyperlib.sjsu.edu/) to guide the role of the Digital Media Lab and how you can strategize to improve your programming.

Electronic Marginalia, Lorena O'English

Online Northwest

Increasingly students and researchers are reading documents and other sources online. Annotation is a crucial part of critically evaluating a source to extract meaning and prepare for later re-reading and review. This lightening talk will briefly discuss modes of electronic annotation and implications for scholarly conversation.

Use Analytics To Put Your Social Media On Cruise Control, Adele Larson

Online Northwest

This session will discuss how you can easily use analytic data on Facebook and Twitter to improve user engagement. Developing a workflow around social media analytics will help you reach out to your audience – and keep track of what is working, and what is not.

• Engage users while keeping your communications higher-education focused – no cat pictures required
• Spend minimal time maintaining social media when you know your peak times and topics
• Utilize trending topics to highlight unique collections or library/campus events

Creating A System For The Online Delivery Of Oral History Content, Chris Petersen

Online Northwest

Over the past four years, faculty and staff in the OSU Libraries have created the largest oral history collection ever gathered at Oregon State University. This same group of archivists, programmers, and students have created a platform for the delivery of contextualized video- and audio-recorded oral history interviews, complete with transcripts delivered as web text and PDF, as well as contextual information (biographical sketches, abstracts) for each interview. Interviews are also tagged according to interviewee affiliation or theme, and can be sorted as such. This talk will discuss the platform that the OSU Libraries created to present this information online. …

Best Practices In Information Literacy Videos, Sami Kerzel

Online Northwest

Online. Hybrid. Flipped. Blended. Active. According to The Chronicle of Education, 28% of college students take an online course, and 63% of colleges find online courses important long-term. Where does information literacy fit in this changing landscape? This presentation will review information literacy instruction practices, and outline best practices based on an analysis of information literacy videos, including user engagement data and length, to help achieve heightened viewer engagement. A group discussion and expanded list of best practices will conclude the presentation. No matter the type of library these best practices will be applicable to any online tutorial.

Bridging The Digital Divide: The Tech Connect Model, Amy Payne

Online Northwest

This presentation will discuss Tech Connect, a monthly “book club for computers” held by the Klamath County Public Library. Library staff demonstrate various online tools and sites, and patrons can get hands-on experience in a supportive environment. The digital divide is alive and well in southern Oregon: many Klamath County patrons do not own their own computers and are reliant on the library to connect to the internet at all. Because of this, they lack experience using these tools. Tech Connect helps them become more confident in their skills, making them more independent computer users.

The Design Of Library Things: Creating A Cohesive Brand Identity For Your Library, Stacy Taylor, Maureen Rust

Online Northwest

Establishing a cohesive visual look for your library improves recognition, engagement, and trust among your community. But presenting a unified appearance can be a challenge when there are a wide variety of faculty and staff members creating promotional and marketing materials. In this session we’ll explore the challenges faced and lessons learned as the Brooks Library developed, revised, and ultimately implemented a library-wide brand identity to establish standards and best practices for the design and tone of the library’s print and digital content. Attendees will receive access to our approved Brand Identity, including helpful resources used.

Ostriches, Minotaurs, Ghosts And Fossils In The Brave New Metadata World, Kelley Mcgrath

Online Northwest

Linked data promises to make library metadata more accessible and powerful. The clearly-defined URIs will form chains that lead to new connections and insights. But is there a flip side to such sharply-delineated data? Real life is messy and natural language doesn’t come with precise definitions. What happens in an environment that seems to require black-and white conclusions? What are the implications for the usefulness of linked data? This presentation will look at some challenges for bibliographic metadata in a linked data environment and discuss some possible approaches to handling them.

France’S Liberation, Women’S Stagnation: France’S Societal Advancement Hindered By The Incarceration Of Women To Traditional Gender Roles Following World War Ii, Helena Gougeon

University Honors Theses

In the early 20th century, the reputation of Western nations as conductors of morality and progress was dismantled during a period that was categorized by turmoil and pandemonium created by the World Wars. World War II marked the zenith of this global crisis. France, in particular, suffered severe blows as a supreme power after the humiliating defeat to German forces eight months after WWII was declared. The defeat was followed by German Occupation throughout France and an ushering in of an authoritarian state known as the Vichy Régime. Following the war, French citizens were mobilized towards a political agenda that …

Investigating The Psychological Effects Associated With Motor Neuron Degeneration In Persons Diagnosed With Als, Eloise Colwell Forrest

University Honors Theses

Investigation of the psychological effects of a terminal condition, wherein current care plans are primarily focused on physical rehabilitation and pain management, is crucial. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis enacts irreversible damage to the body of those diagnosed, resulting in neurodegenerative processes that cause paralysis and eventually respiratory failure. There is no known cure or cause, which eliminates many traditional treatment avenues. Though the disease wreaks havoc on the muscular systems of the body there are no direct effects that degrade mental processing, leaving the individual experiencing the condition an aware witness to their own functional loss. Creating a multidisciplinary approach inclusion …

Microwave Instrumentation And Sensing Techniques For Quantum Efficiency And Minority-Carrier Lifetime Measurements, Kyle Benjamin Lu

Dissertations and Theses

A non-contact method characterizing the quantum efficiency of a solar cell using the microwave reflectance signature is presented in this thesis. Traditional solar cell quantum efficiency (QE) measurements are only possible near the completion of the fabrication process using contacts in direct physical connection with the metalized surface tabs to probe and extract charge carriers from the device. However, pressure within the solar metrology industry to report the spectral performance of the device earlier in the manufacturing process as part of the process control loop requires that a new non-contact method be developed. This thesis work contributes the development of …

Food Access Narratives In Southeast Portland, Oregon, Gwyneth Genevieve Mckee Manser

Dissertations and Theses

Since the late 1990's, "food deserts" have dominated the academic and policy literature on food access and food security. Food deserts are defined as areas that lack easy access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food, and are typically measured using Geographic Information Systems and spatial data sets. However, while food deserts may provide a useful measure for identifying food insecurity at a broad scale, they fail to account for individual definitions and perceptions of food access (Barnes et al. 2015; McEntee 2009). Furthermore, the food desert model assumes a lack of agency on the part of low-income populations (Alkon et …

Dynamic Assignment Models And Their Application In The Portland Metro Region, Peter G. Bosa

PSU Transportation Seminars

Metro's Research and Modeling Services Program is responsible for the development, maintenance, and application of travel demand models for application in long-range planning efforts in the Portland metropolitan region.

Representation of traffic—both vehicular and transit—plays an integral role in the travel demand modeling process. Complex software is required to assign vehicles and transit users to transportation networks to determine viable options available to travelers, costs associated with those options, and sets of routes by which travelers might navigate their trips.

Metro's current static assignment model has traditionally sufficed for use with Metro's four-step travel demand model. However, static assignments have …

Evaluating Tech Tools For Literacy: A Research-Based Checklist, Todd Cherner, Peggy Hopper

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications and Presentations

With an emphasis placed on students reading and writing digitally, this presentation offers attendees a resource they can use to evaluate the literacy implications for using different apps and websites.

Regulating Pavement Dwellers: The Politics Of The Visibly Poor In Public Space, Lauren Marie Larin

Dissertations and Theses

Many researchers argue the increasing reliance on sit/lie ordinances to regulate homeless people's use of public space is one in a suite of neoliberal policies that shape the geographies of public space in cities to serve the needs of global capital. However, these policies are developed at the local, not global, level as specific actors make claims in the public sphere that communicatively shape policy formation. Through comparative case study, this research asks, how do different actors, situated in specific local and global contexts, influence the adoption of sit/lie ordinances?

I examine two cases of policymaking in Portland and San …

Not A Dirty Word: Encouraging Feminist Activism Through Design And Social Practices, Gabriella L. Mckenzie

University Honors Theses

Many young people identify with the statement "I'm not a feminist, but…" (Buschman, Lenart, 2003). According to a survey of college-aged individuals, many of them identified with a feminist viewpoint; however, these individuals reject the label of feminist as well as the group mentality within feminist activism (Buschman, Lenart, 2003). How does one encourage young people that "feminist" isn’t a negative label and that feminism is worthwhile? In my thesis I will attempt to answer this question and start to solve this problem through the use of design principles, printed matter, and factual information on feminism and young people. In …

Power Dynamics And Environmental Resource Flows In The Network Society: Water Bottling And Policy Development In The Columbia Gorge, Cody Shotola-Schiewe

University Honors Theses

This research explores the sociopolitical development of resource rights policy and environmental resource flows in the network society. The specific interaction studied is centered on a disputed proposal by Nestlé Waters North America to the City of Cascade Locks, on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, which would allow Nestlé to build a water bottling plant accessing the culturally and environmentally significant Oxbow Springs. The primary question guiding this research is: In the case of the developing policy concerning water rights in the County of Hood River, what are the identifiable power dynamics between civil society actors, private interests, …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet March 2017, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The March 2017 Monthly packet includes the February agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held February 2017.

El Capitalismo Y El Ciudadano Del Distrito Federal: Evolución De La Identidad En La Ciudad De México En Respuesta A Los Cambios Económicos En Dos Épocas Desde La Óptica De La Región Más Transparente De Carlos Fuentes Y Hotel Df De Guillermo Fadanelli, Douglas Mitchell L. Emison

University Honors Theses

Throughout the history of Mexico, the country's gradual involvement with capitalism has given rise to different eras of profound economic change which have consequently generated a variety of influences implicating changes in Mexican sociocultural identity. This work investigates two specific eras of novel capitalist engagement to determine the relationship between these economic changes and the evolution of Mexican identity using the urban environment of Mexico City as the socio-spatial center. The sociocultural effects of Mexico's post-revolutionary era of economic development from the 1940s to the 1960s will first be explored, followed by an investigation of the post-NAFTA / WTO era …

The Doormen, Sean Burns

University Honors Theses

A creative exploration of the ways in which youth development is impacted by the advancements of modern communication technology.

Do Sarcastic Exchanges With Millennial Employees Influence Performance Appraisal Effectiveness?, Karissa Burright

University Honors Theses

This literature review explores the intricacies of sarcasm in the supervisor-employee relationship; particularly, it looks at sarcasm between supervisors and Millennial generation employees and possible ways it influences performance appraisal effectiveness. It focuses on five key intersections, as follows: sarcasm, trust, Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), performance appraisals, and the Millennial generation. The purpose is to identify and define these intersections, their implications, and the gaps in current research. Thus far, there is little research on these intersections, requiring this paper to link the overlapping areas between subjects. Therefore, this research builds upon the work or psychologists, sociologists, human resources management, and …

Root-Enhanced Infiltration In Stormwater Bioretention Facilities In Portland, Oregon, Ted David Hart

Dissertations and Theses

I evaluated the effectiveness of plant roots to increase infiltration rates within stormwater bioretention facilities (SBFs), roadside planter compartments that filter stormwater. SBFs attenuate harmful effects of stormwater by reducing peak flow and retaining pollutants, with increased infiltration that improves both these functions. Researchers have shown that roots can increase infiltration within greenhouse, lab, field, and test SBF settings. However, no researchers have yet measured either the extent to which different root characteristics can increase infiltration or the variation in root characteristics and their effect on infiltration rates among plant assemblages within currently functioning SBFs.

To determine if root-enhanced infiltration …

The Pacific Sentinel, March 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

The Pacific Sentinel

Editor: Alex Skousen

Articles in this issue include:

• Senate Bill 540;
• Game On!;
• Portland International Film Festival;
• Tappin' Feet at Portland Jazz Festival;
• Apple Invests in Artificial Intelligence;
• Rookie Level Astrology

Video Frame Interpolation Via Adaptive Convolution, Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Feng Liu

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Video frame interpolation typically involves two steps: motion estimation and pixel synthesis. Such a two-step approach heavily depends on the quality of motion estimation. This paper presents a robust video frame interpolation method that combines these two steps into a single process. Specifically, our method considers pixel synthesis for the interpolated frame as local convolution over two input frames. The convolution kernel captures both the local motion between the input frames and the coefficients for pixel synthesis. Our method employs a deep fully convolu- tional neural network to estimate a spatially-adaptive con- volution kernel for each pixel. This deep neural …

Improving Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence In Resource-Limited Settings At Scale: A Discussion Of Interventions And Recommendations, Jessica E. Haberer, Lora Sabin, K. Rivet Amico, Catherine Orrell, Omar Galarraga, Alexander C. Tsai, Rachel C. Vreeman, Ira Wilson, Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Terrence F. Blaschke, Bernard Vrijens, Claude Mellins, Robert H. Remien, Sheri D. Weiser, Elizabeth Lolwenthal, Michael J. Stirratt, Papa Salif Sow, Bruce Thomas, Nathan Ford, Edward Mills, Richard Lester, Jean B. Nachega, Bosco M. Bwana, Fred Ssewamala, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Paula Munderi, Elvin H. Geng, David Bangsberg

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

INTRODUCTION:

Successful population-level antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence will be necessary to realize both the clinical and prevention benefits of antiretroviral scale-up and, ultimately, the end of AIDS. Although many people living with HIV are adhering well, others struggle and most are likely to experience challenges in adherence that may threaten virologic suppression at some point during lifelong therapy. Despite the importance of ART adherence, supportive interventions have generally not been implemented at scale. The objective of this review is to summarize the recommendations of clinical, research, and public health experts for scalable ART adherence interventions in resource-limited settings.

METHODS:

In …

Each Medium Tells A Different Story: The Effect Of Message Channel On Narrative Persuasion, Nathan Walter, Sheila T. Murphy, Lauren B. Frank, Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

Limited attention has been given to the medium of story presentation in this process of narrative persuasion. The present study (N = 243) fills this gap by directly comparing narrative involvement across print and audiovisual versions of the same cervical cancer-related story. The mediation analysis revealed that exposure to an audiovisual narrative was associated with higher levels of cognitive and emotional involvement than exposure to the exact same narrative in its printed form. Yet the higher levels of transportation in the audiovisual condition came at a price of enhancing psychological reactance, eliminating the relative advantage of the film narrative.